[vampireinterview]

ANYWAY. i would love it if you reblogged this with the best book you read in 2022 so far

[70sscifiart]

Henri Lievens

[brechtian]

ursula k le guin said sci fi/fantasy does not have to be about giant wars or battles of good and evil or galactic disaster; it is best served as a lens through which to examine what is actually intrinsic to the human condition and what, once removed a few layers from our own perceptions & assumptions, begins to fall apart. and she was correct.

[conicet]

12/06/2022

Gifted these to myself. Frankenstein I've already read but I think is one of those books one simply must have a copy of, specially since it's often studied at schools.

[arsanimarum]

ELEKTRA by Sophokles, tr. by Anne Carson

[thebellekeys]

I hate how the booktokification of the “unhinged woman” genre has completely reduced the concept of female rage to just “girlboss” without taking seriously how important it is to unequivocally portray female rage.

Throughout the history of literature, we’ve been given countless instances of women in despair and in sadness but save for a few writers (take Euripides, for example), we’ve rarely ever been given angry women who aren’t the villains or the foil for the perfect poised passive princess. Female rage has constantly been subdued and erased or warped into “she’s just batshit crazy” in pretty much every society.

And now that publishing and media marketing has reduced women showing rage in books to the “white hypersexual girlboss with a knife”, instead of uplifting the way women are allowed to have more dimension and sympathy in their visible anger than ever in literature, the media still isn’t taking this subgenre seriously.

[conicet]

He vuelto. No me daba cuenta pero extrañaba la posibilidad que ofrece Tumblr de mostrarnos tal cual somos, mientras mantenemos el anonimato. También había olvidado que tengo el user conicet y me causa mucha gracia lo visionaria que fui.

Otro aspecto a resaltar: la certeza de hablarle al vacío es cautivante y liberadora.

[mischieffoal]

Step 1: Justice Step 2: Propriety Step 3: ???? Step 4: Benefit

[iris-of-the-lambs]

Broken objects, beyond repair.

Or: You thought I was over Imperial Radch? I’m never not going to be emotional about Sphene’s tea set being a metaphor for Everyone’s Trauma.,

(psst open the images in a new tab to read the text better)

[thoreau-in-making]

Destruction of Christopher Columbus statue on the square in his name

[Arica, Chile, Nov. 2019]

[styrke-deactivated20240722]

life doesn’t end at 25. life doesn’t end at 27 or 30 either. life doesn’t end at 35 or 45. life doesn’t end at 65. it doesn’t matter how old you are, when you decide to get your high school degree or start a family. it doesn’t matter when you decide to go run a marathon or go travel the world. life is not made up by numbers, age is, and your age is not all that you are. you got time. life doesn’t end until it ends.

[farmlesbians]

i simply cannot relate to these people

[s-online]

[messiology]

why do i laugh so much with shit posting, istg

[messiology]

i should do an arg shitposting maratón one day

[sudaca-swag]

This reminded me of:

[fandomsandfeminism]

Thought: I do NOT think that 50% of the world’s billionaires should be women. I think there shouldn’t be any billionaires at all.

[cranberrybogmummy]

So you are saying 0% of the world should be billionaires?

[fandomsandfeminism]

Yes.

[caosdth]

Why shouldn’t their be billionaires? That makes no sense.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Because the existence of billionaires is predicated on the exploitation of human labor and unsustainable environmental harm.  That level of wealth hoarding is harmful to economies, as it reduces the amount of money in circulation. No one person, no family, could ever conceivably even SPEND a billion dollars anyway, and  it is inherently immoral to accumulate wealth so narrowly while so much of the world lives in abject poverty.  

Better then to create a wealth ceiling, a point at which all wealth over a certain point  is taxed at or very near 100% to incentivize people to actually spend their money rather than hoard it, stimulating the economy and bettering the lives of far more people. Better even still to create and regulate economic systems that protect workers and the environment in a way that such extreme levels of wealth accumulation aren’t even feasible. 

[aflawedmind]

The problem with this is that it reduces the incentive to actually do fiscally well. What’s the point of starting a business if you can’t become wealthy?

[fandomsandfeminism]

There is a very real difference between “reasonably wealthy” and A BILLIONAIRE

[twodotsknowwhy]

No one is saying you shouldn’t have a nice house, we are saying that having multiple really, really ridiculously nice houses while your employees are either homeless or at serious risk of becoming homeless is immoral.

[whenandwhereienter]

I’ll never understand why this concept is hard for people. I think it’s because they can’t actually fathom how much $1 Billion is.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Seriously.

Let’s say you have a badass job. A great job. You make $100 AN HOUR. You work 10 hours a day ($1000 A DAY), 5 days a week ($5000 a week!!!), every week ($20,000 A MONTH), thats $240,000 Every Year.

It would take you 4,167 years to make a billion dollars.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Keep in mind then, that if you got paid $1000 an hour, 10 hours a day, five days a week, every week, all year, it would still take over 400 years to make a billion.

You want to make one billion in a human lifetime? If you made $10,000 an HOUR, 10 hours a day, 5 days a week, every week, all year, it would take you 41 years to hit a billion.

(And that’s not counting, ya know, money you spend to stay alive on food or rent or anything. )

Jeff Bezos currently has 140 billion dollars.

[bando--grand-scamyon]

$10,000 an HOUR while most of us barely making $12. Can y’all conceptualize now?

[glizzygaymer]

Will always reblog

[randomslasher]

Because this is still a difficult set of numbers for some folks to comprehend (legitimately–our brains have a hard time conceptualizing big numbers) a really good example I like to use is the difference between a million and a billion in time.

1 million seconds is approximately 11 days. 

1 billion seconds is just shy of 32 years. 

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Wealth should be universally capped.

[robin-hood-for-freedom]

I’m still not seeing how you are getting ‘wealth should be capped’ from ‘a billion is really REALLY big’  

[fandomsandfeminism]

Wealth should be capped because the accumulation of wealth at such massive quantities as 1 billion+ is predicated upon exploitative and unsustainable economic systems.

[bigxdrew]

Niggas want to go to 1930’s Soviet Russia so bad

[fandomsandfeminism]

Advocating for 1950s American tax brackets and modern Nordic economic models isnt 1930s Soviet Russia, and if you dont understand that, I’m not sure what to tell you.

[conicet]

July 31st

[ivorypng]

good way to start the morning if you ask me ☕️

[just-a-jumbled-writer]

All writing is a political statement. Characters, setting, aesthetics of a story, all are drenched in the themes and beliefs the authors are pushing, intentionally or unintentionally. 

A cast of all-white dudes kickin’ ass and savin’ the day? That’s a political statement.

A cast full of diversity of colour, sexuality, and gender? That’s a political statement. 

A setting where automation has lead to utopia is as politically charged as a setting where it has lead to corporate domination and dystopia. Every setting, from Predator to Star Wars to Fight Club to bloody Scooby Doo is all political, it’s all reflective of the creator’s agenda and thoughts and is intended to show why the author is right or wrong in what they present. 

That’s why “we don’t want politics in our media!” is, and always will be, bullshit. Every story has something they want to tell, and things they tell without meaning to. Implications abound in every character, every arc, every story. 

To say you don’t want politics in your media is to say you don’t want media itself.